Message #33853

[Bianca]

Matrix-based reason is by no means a sort of occult quality appropriate only for astrologers. It operates in thought at all levels, especially among philosophers.

We have evidence of this in Pythagoras, Plato, Paracelsus or Kepler, but also in Democritus (criteria of differentiation among atoms), Hippocratus (theory of humors), Aristotle (theory of the causes of motion), Damascius (theory of unity), Ramon Llull (theological combinatories), Nicholas of Cues (theory of the ten fields of knowledge), Campanella, Descartes (rules of the scientific method), Leibnitz (universal characteristics), Kant (theory of categories), Hegel, Fourier ...

As soon as thought proceeds from some source other than discursive reasoning, and there appear meaningful distinctions, the provenance of which cannot be traced back to discursive logic, then thought is functioning in the matrix-based mode. To put it another way: these distinctions derive from an archetypal distribution of values (by 3, 4, 8, 10, 12 ...) of an astro-psychic nature, which conditions matrix-based judgment.

The astral matrix is in its first instance structured by the principle of four, and the matrix itself structures psychic phenomena, which means that it consequently structures any given set of sociocultural and psycho-mental products. In Mesopotamia, astrology exercised a function more collective than individual in nature.

Nowadays, astrology has been reduced to a kind of individual therapy on the basis of the natal chart. The so-called "humanistic" sciences are concerned with planetary cycles and the astrological approach. One could conceive a methodology for an astro-based history, geography, psychology, sociology ... [46] Astral agents modulate and structure the human world and are the safekeepers of anthropological knowledge.

Matrix-based logic indeed requires a reorganization of language and knowledge, a redistribution of mental, social and cultural representations, and, as a consequence, a reevaluation of concepts customarily used in a unilateral sense or in dualistic terms.

    Every field of investigation, all conceptual problematics, any activity of mind calls forth a quaternary archetype at the very point that it relates to the human psyche. Astrology is the study of the effects of the quaternary structuring of the psyche, i.e., the quadripartition of reality by the human mind. Four perspectives of irreducible nature, which astral incidence distributes in specific proportions in the case of each individual, pre-exist in consciousness every encounter with experiential reality.

The perception of these four perspectives is for Carlos Castaneda (1925-1998), interpreter of the Bardo Thödol [the Tibetan Book of the Dead], a matter of attitudinal equanimity: " To be a nagual implies that one has no point of view to defend." [47]

Paracelsus insisted on the quaternary structure of consciousness; the quaternary division of the "macanthrope" [primordial man], astro-psychic in nature, underpins any quadripartition of sociocultural phenomena. [48] Since the days of Parmenides and Anaxagoras, Greco-European thought has tended to reason by process of exclusion. A number of mistakes have resulted from the haste to unify multiplicity by putting into place artificial dualities. [49]

In contradistinction to dualist problematics, matrix-based reasoning consists of asking oneself a priori about the legitimacy of comparison between entities perceived within a single field of application.